This issue of Gravesiana features a selection of articles based on papers at the Eleventh International Robert Graves Conference,

‘Robert Graves and Modernism’, held at Oxford in September 2012. Further material from the conference will be included in the next issue of the journal.

Articles from the 2010 Robert Graves Conference in Mallorca appear in Robert Graves and the Mediterranean, one of an exceptional number of books devoted to Robert Graves which have been published since the last Gravesiana. Three of them are reviewed here, notably a major new study, Counting the Beats:

Graves’ Poetry of Unrest, by the French poet and critic Anne Mounic.

A milestone in the course of Robert Graves’s poetic reputation is the new Faber Selected Poems, edited by Michael Longley, which will be reviewed in the next issue. This important volume will introduce the poet to new readers and enable his admirers to share the response, at once authoritative and personal, of a fellow poet whose readings of Graves’s and his own poetry were highlights of the last two Robert Graves conferences.

Members of the Robert Graves Society were among the ‘tens of thousands’ that felt, in the words of his ‘brother’ poet Michael Longley, ‘personally bereaved’ at the death of Seamus Heaney

(1939–2013). Those who attended the 1995 Robert Graves Centenary Conference at Oxford will always cherish the reading that he gave there. This issue of Gravesiana is dedicated to the memory of a great poet. May he rest in peace.

Dunstan Ward, formerly Professor of English at the University of London Institute in Paris, edited with Beryl Graves the Carcanet and Penguin Classics editions of Robert Graves’s Complete Poems.